Posted inCulture
More on mammograms
Emotions, as they say, run high, especially about "health." There is a great deal of superfluous, extraneous, and irrelevant discussion taking place with regard to the new mammogram guidelines. Yesterday,…
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No Mammogram Screening For Healthy Women Until 50: It’s about time
Update: see also this story. The U.S. Preventive Services Task force (whatever that is), in the Annals of Internal Medicine, yesterday advised women not to begin mammogram screenings for breast…
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Politics
Bow wow Republicans make themselves look like asses when they publicly sniff and tiff over Obama's bow of greeting to Japan's Emperor and Mrs Emperor. Is there anything so trivial…
Posted inCulture
Can you do these math problems? If not, you can still go to college
Here are four problems, published by the New York Daily News, that high school graduates attempted as they entered the City University of New York (CUNY) system. The percents are…
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Podcast Lecture #5: Four Probability Rules
[podcast]https://www.wmbriggs.com/audio/wmbriggs_com_lecture_0005.mp3[/podcast] Today's Lecture: Difficulties I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, which included a new version of Audacity 1.3.9, a persnickety package that keeps locking up. Word on the 'net is…
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The Five Worst Enemies of All Humanity
A guy named Adam Sacks---as in two---published a list of the five worst enemies of all mankind. George W. Bush is there, of course. But then, he was put down…
Posted inFun
The Navy’s Phantom Pooper
With all the yock and chatter that's been floating around about the military lately, I thought it would be fun to tell an uplifting story. My dad was an electrician's…
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Conditional probability, Islam, and terrorism screening
Suppose you heard on the radio a breaking news story: "Shots reported at Fort Hood Army base. Several are dead, many more are wounded. Eyewitnesses claim this is an act…
